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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swimfreak26" data-source="post: 2885159" data-attributes="member: 544365">Ok, first of all...do not mess with peroxides ladies, it's just an awful idea. Most are shock sensitive and very explosive....stability is key if you're messing with stuff that can kill you IMO.Gun cotton is okay to make, but you want to use more nitric acid than 10%...the generally accepted method (introduced by Frederick Abel) uses 2 parts sulfuric acid and 1 part nitric acid (Sulfuric acid is only present to prevent dilution of the nitric acid by water generated in the nitrogenation reaction). Also, the water in the cotton can cause spontaneous combustion...so the washing and drying process is very important, and can often take an entire day or more if you do it correctly. Oh yeah...nitric acid isn't something you pick up (at least not in concentrated form) in any store. You can get a hold of fairly concentrated phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, and hydrochloric acid...but due to the many many many explosives that use nitrogenation, it's harder to come across the stuff you need.One more thing. Although I HIGHLY urge you not to mess with peroxides, if you're going to...please do not put a jar in the freezer, add stuff, put it back in, add stuff, etc. Using that method there is no way to ensure you're keeping the reaction kinetics slow enough to prevent combustion. Use an ice/water or more safely an ice/water/salt bath...and if you're feeling really frisky use sidewalk ice (often calcium chloride) so you can lower the temperature even further.The sad thing is that the the explosives which are easy to make with "household" chemicals are the least stable during and after synthesis. Please do not mess with these things unless you have some chemistry background, and more importantly, experience in lab.As a final note, I'll quit acting like a parent, and say that hexamine (hexamethylenetetramine) with concentrated nitric acid yeilds RDX...the explosive in C4.Ah...one more thing, iron oxide is not hard to get if you want to do thermite. Iron oxide is just rust...and although scraping rust off something isn't optimal, it works just fine if you grind it up with a mortar and pestal to increase the surface area for reaction. Magnesium is the best ignition source in most cases for thermite, but the reaction of glycerine and potassium permangenate on top of the thermite mixture also works.</blockquote>

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